北京會是下一個霧都嗎？Will Beijing Be the Next Foggy City?

On December, 1952, London was surrounded by the poisonous foggy for at least 4 days. Due to the poisonous air, the hospitals in London were crowed with patients, more than 4000 people died because of the foggy. In the next two month, 8000 people passed away. London, who used to proud of her fast growing economic, at this moment, she had to swallow the heavy price. After this incident, London had made up her mind that she must get rid of the poisonous foggy, and brought the city back to life again. After twenty years of hard working, London had made a balance between economic and environment. The win-win outcome had inspired the whole world. 
1952年12月，倫敦被毒霧籠罩了至少4天。因爲毒霧，倫敦的醫院擠滿了病人，超過4000人死亡。在隨後的兩個月，又有8000人去世。倫敦，這個曾經以快速增長的經濟而驕傲的城市，在這一刻，付出了沉重的代價。這次事故後，倫敦狠下心要擺脫掉“霧都”的帽子，讓城市重獲新生。在通過20年的不懈努力之後，倫敦在經濟發展和環境治理中找到了平衡。這個雙贏的結果對世界有很大的啓發。
Beijing, the second biggest city in China, has faced the same situation, the foggy. Getting into winter, the air in Beijing was extremely bad; the foggy is surrounding the city for days. Thanks to today’s advanced health service; people can use various ways to protect themselves from the poisonous foggy. However, this isn’t the right way to fix the problems. The children dare not play outside; the traffic light cannot be seen because of the thick foggy, this will increase the possibility of traffic accidents; people have to wear breathing mask if they need to go outside. The clean air cannot make people to live forever, but at least it can make sure people are not suffering from coughing. However, we’re just too blind to see. If everybody plants a tree, the air will be clean someday. But the ironic part is the governments still chase the rapid growth of GDP, and play deaf and dumb to the environment. Do we really have to walk the same path just like old London?
北京，這個中國第二大的城市，現如今面臨着同樣的問題：毒霧。進入冬季以來，北京的空氣變得特別的差。迷霧籠罩城市，遲遲不肯散去。感謝如今先進的醫療服務，人們可以用多種方法來抵制毒霧。但這也是治標不治本。小孩子不能外出遊玩，交通燈看不見，增大了車禍的風險；如果一定要出門，那就得帶口罩。乾淨的空氣不能使人長生不老，但是至少讓人們遠離咳嗽之苦。然而，我們卻視而不見。如果每個人種一棵樹，空氣就會變乾淨一些。但諷刺的是政府部門卻在一味的追求GDP的增長，對環境問題裝聾作啞。難道我們真的要走上舊時倫敦的老路麼？
I don’t want Beijing or any other cities in China to be the next foggy city. This is so scary. I hope we can return to our offspring a clean sky and fresh air.
我不希望北京或者是中國的任何一個城市變成下一個“霧都”。這太可怕了。我希望我們能還給我們的子孫後代一個乾淨的藍天和新鮮的空氣。